Case Study – Bandsintown & Stream

Bandsintown, a popular concert discovery app founded in 2004, serves over 25 million users and connects more than 230,000 artists with a global audience of 120 million music fans. In 2015, the company sought to enhance its app by adding social features and a notification feed to improve artist-fan interaction and integrate social aspects among users. Rather than developing an in-house solution, Bandsintown chose Stream to implement these features due to its ease of integration, scalability, and support for various frameworks. Stream's API enabled Bandsintown to handle large fluctuations in traffic efficiently, with feeds loading in an average of 20 milliseconds, while also offering benefits like solid documentation, 99.99% uptime, and detailed usage stats. The decision to collaborate with Stream allowed Bandsintown to build a sophisticated solution quickly and cost-effectively, avoiding the prolonged development process of an in-house build.